>Hi David ---
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>I'm using the _splash and _about form classes.....they're OK. Test basis only, nothing in production yet.
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>Look at it this way.....if you can steal a few ideas from an FFC addressing a topic you haven't messed with yet but are going to have to.....all the better to get the jumpstart, eh?
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>>I've had a little look at the event and properties code in the component gallery base classes of VFP 6 - the ones with names like _toolbar, _label etc.
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>>While I think there's some important stuff in theret some of the code looks like it's going to slow things down quit a lot - with PEMStatus() and TYPE("ccc") etc.
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>>Are these classes "serious" stuff?
>>Are real developers actually using them?

That's sort of what I figured folks would be doing John.
Thanks
BTW I meant next-to-base classes not net- :-)